Colonial Unit Word Scramble
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Vocabulary Term | Definition |
broker | a person who paid to buy and sell things for someone else |
presidio | a military fort built for the protection of settlers in the Spanish borderlands |
militia | a town's voluntary army |
indentured servant | a person who worked without pay to pay the cost of coming to the Americas |
mission | a small community of Catholic religious workers in the Spanish colonies |
auction | a place where slaves were bought and sold |
debtor | a person who has been in prison for owing money |
fall line | a place where the land drops sharply, causing rivers to form waterfalls |
scarce | not plentiful |
hacienda | a large estate |
self-sufficient | self-supporting |
royal colony | a colony ruled by a king or queen |
portage | the carrying of canoes and supplies around waterfalls and rapids or overland between rivers |
tributaries | branch rivers |
proprietary colony | a colony that was owned and ruled by one person who was chosen by a king or queen |
proprietor | a land owner |
Puritans | a member of the Church of England who settled in North America to follow Christian beliefs in a more "pure" way |
charter | a document giving a person or group official approval to take a certain action |
Fundamental Orders | the first written system of government in North America; adopted in Connecticut |
influence | the ability people or things have to affect other people or things |
refuge | a safe place |
immigrants | people who come to live in a country after leaving their home country |
frontier | the land beyond the settlements |
cash crop | a crop that people raise to sell to others rather than to use themselves |
House of Burgesses | an assembly that met in the colony of Virginia to make laws |
naval stores | products made from pine tar that were used in building and repairing ships |
Indigo | a plant from which blue dye is made |
debtors | people who had beein in prison for owing money |
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